Quotes About Endurance

I bet I live till ninety, with all my aches and pains. To think that's fifty more years of the Great I-Am. No wonder I want to make away with myself. Who wouldn't?

God, what we women have to put up with; and I'm not even allowed to complain.

it was only much later that I found out hardness worked better than love.

Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.

I finally understand what it means to find that someone who is everything to you. Once you've found that kind of love, you must hold on to it-no matter what or who gets in the way. - Princess Diana

For those who never give up

I came to serve you at the age of 28 and now I have not a hair on me that is not white, and my body is infirm and exhausted. All that was left to me and my brothers has been taken away and sold, even to the cloak that I wore, without hearing or trial, to my great dishonor.

Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he could, holding out good hope of the advantages they would have. He added that it was useless to complain, he had come [to go] to the Indies, and so had to continue it until he found them, with the help of Our Lord.

I defend myself against pain and death by pain And death,

Importunate life. It should have something better to do Than to hang about at a chronic street-corner In dirty weather and worse company.

My goal is to live far outside of history as possible. History is a territory where mostly bad things happen to good people.

Humans, it seemed, were like cockroaches. Determined enough, they could thrive anywhere.

The Suffering are always here, no matter where else they may be.

Be cheerful, work hard, laugh a lot, be light of heart, because though the cold might kill you, it hadn't yet. Instead, it gave you what you needed to live.

The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.

He was dying all his life.

The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.

What a laborious, frightful business it was, this killing time, over and over again that little seconds-hand racing invisibly beyond the horizon, over and over again you threw a heavy dark sack over it, in the certain knowledge that the little hand went racing on, relentlessly on and on…

Um dos sinais da verdadeira amizade é o facto de esta não se modificar, aconteça o que acontecer. A amizade e a disponibilidade de nos ajudarmos mutuamente continua até ao fim das nossas vidas.

First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.

Soup is never eaten as hot as it is cooked.

Lo cierto es que me obsesionaba una sola idea: la determinación de vivir, de sobrevivir a toda costa.

There is a character in The Count of Monte Cristo who digs through solid rock for years and finally gets somewhere: he finds himself in another cell. It was that kind of moment.

He that runs against Time, has an antagonist not subject to casualities.